From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>,
"Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: remove single file segments related code
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:32:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALwxeUuJbagx+1m7kdcgFh8jUt3TKvorCbD3nfS=4QPJx4Yq=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED26CBA2FAD1BF48A8719AEF02201E364E68E27F@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com]
>> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 5:15 PM
>> To: Thomas Monjalon
>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; David Marchand; Tan, Jianfeng
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: remove single file segments related code
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:50:06AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> > 2016-09-23 15:10, Yuanhan Liu:
>> > > Commit c711ccb30987 ("ivshmem: remove library and its EAL integration")
>> > > removed ivshmem support, but seems David forgot to remove the another
>> > > piece of code: code for RTE_EAL_SINGLE_FILE_SEGMENTS, which is
>> introduced
>> > > when ivshmem was firstly added.
>> >
>> > It is not a mistake. We thought it is used by container use case.
>>
>> I think no. It would help the container case a bit, but not too much I
>> would think, especially when the memory goes fragement.
>>
>> Jianfeng, IIRC, you don't use that option for container case, right?
>>
>> --yliu
>
> No, I don't use this option for container case. As yuanhan said, it cannot provide much help for virtio_user memory region number limitation.
Ok, as said, since this feature had been introduced with ivshmem
40b966a211ab ("ivshmem: library changes for mmaping using ivshmem"),
if Sergio has nothing against this removal, I am all for removing
unused code.
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-30 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-23 7:10 Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-23 8:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-23 9:14 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-23 10:08 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-09-30 14:32 ` David Marchand [this message]
2016-09-30 14:48 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-10-03 14:08 ` Thomas Monjalon
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